Rat disease models have played an integral role in scientific discovery and cancer research, including Nobel Prize–winning ...

Qi Biodesign, a company involved in genome-editing technologies, announced that it has completed a $75 million funding round, which includes seed funding and Series Pre-A and Series A stages. Beijing ...

The gene editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 is changing what's possible for treating a wide range of diseases caused by genetic mutations. But so far, attempts to use the technology to address ...

Scientists and physicians can better assess precision genome editing technology using a new method made public today by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Significant amounts of time and resources ...

In a study published in Science Translational Medicine, a team of researchers led by Dr. Wang Yu from the Shenzhen Institutes ...

Existing gene-editing technologies have led to significant advances in both medicine and food production. However, momentum appears to be slowing, particularly in health applications, as early hype is ...

This project involved a collaborative meeting in Hanover, Germany in October 2017. The collaborators were the InterAcademy Partnership and the European Academies Science Advisory Concil. The workshop ...

Genome editing lets scientists rewrite DNA, the instruction manual inside every living cell, with a precision that was ...

Researchers have spent decades—and billions of dollars—sequencing animal and crop genomes, but fungi have historically been ...

A team of researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) recently won a $250,000 prize from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve technologies for delivering ...